Hi Ingrid, You can instruct RMAN to restore the archive logs to a location you specify with "SET ARCHIVELOG DESTINATION TO" http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/recov004.htm#i1032364 -Justin On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Ingrid Voigt <giantpanda@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > (this is a current production recovery and not a test). > > We are doing RMAN PITR for a database with more than 7000 archivelogs to be > recovered. (Restore was successful, recovery is currently running). > > log_archive_dest_1 is probably not big enough to take all these > archivelogs at the > same time. We have come up with two options to prevent it from filling up: > > 1) Change the archivelog destination to another disk during recovery > - will this even work? > 2) Move / delete archivelogs that have already been recovered > (v$recovery_progress has this info). - Will this do anything bad other than > possibly confusing the next backup? > > Are there other options? > > We have about three hours to make a decision, so I'd very much appreciate > your quick feedback... > > > Thanks and best regards > Ingrid Voigt > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >